A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The future is certain for those who follow dharma. Those who don't follow dharma are pushed back again and again into the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes in an incarnation you get a feeling of frustration. It is not working out the way you want. If you pull… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human beings fear light and knowledge and power. There is a weird quirky sort of thing that happens with people. When you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They might see that you are going to meet a beautiful woman or a beautiful man. They will come to you in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen. There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The integrity of the subtle body is totally important. As the subtle body wears, we get sick. That is why, eventually, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
